Felony Disenfranchisement: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

German prisons actively encourage and enable people to vote (only way to get disenfranchised is treason and electoral fraud, apparently, and those sanctions are always time-limited). In my opinion, that's the right way to go about it. Voting gives people a stake in the society they live in. It makes them consider the kind of country they want to see. And being at the mercy of the state to a particularly high degree makes it even more important for those imprisoned to be able to vote.

In Finland you cant lose your right to vote at all, at first i didnt guite believe it but checked multiple sources so i guess it's true.

@MrDecessus Then why can't people in the U.S. that have committed felonies visit other countries? That's because other countries aren't loving either.

I find it braindead that to legally gain your voting rights back you have to appear before a board that does not work with the legal system.

A board run by a man who will be acutely aware of the likelihood the disproportionately high number of black people he judges will vote for him. Sometimes America out-muricas itself. This is one of those times. Like the judge who got paid to send kids to jail.

Espeonage the Espeon Spy I concur.

The amendment just got passed

@kacsa00001 not true. Many laws are racist intentionally without using racist wording.Lawmakers are quite accomplished at that.

"There's no standards. So we can make any decision we want."Sounds perfectly fair to me ... assuming you live in a totalitarian dictatorship where human rights have been declared illegal. Btw ... asking if you go to church is a blatant violaion of the first amendment which gives you the right to choose any religion you like including none at all.

@Real Shaoran They haven't really evolved from the Puritans, have they? They ran from Britain and Europe because they felt they didn't have religious freedom. Then they made sure that no-one else had. Almost as late as freaking 1700 they were hanging people for witchcraft.

@Susan Williams EXACTLY! It's terrifying that our original reason to be a free country (taxation without representation) has gone out the window.

"Uh so why won't you allow me to vote even though I'm doing everything right?" "lol i just dun feel like it" the epitome of apathy and selfishness in American politics

Cryptonymicus, Maybe in other more equal countries I can understand, but in the US the system there is definitively flawed, a lot of innocent people are put in jail for crimes they did not commit, furthermore the inequality divide in the US can be so prevalent that people may have to make money any way they can. Furthermore, prison is technically meant to be a place of reform for criminals. Also,​ say you did something stupid like drink driving, you should get a chance at reform if you screw up. (This ...

@Cryptonymicus A drug addict went to jail for drug possession, got clean, then devoted his life to helping others get clean also, and you STILL think he's a bad guy?? Christ I hope you have no skeletons in your closet or else you're gonna look like a big hypocrite...

We are happy to say that Amendment 4 passed last night.

I bet all those Florida stories happened in two days

kefkapalazzo1 two hours.

This story has a happy ending! It passed! 64% Way to go Florida!

Good news everybody, Florida passed the amendment and 1.4 million felons can now vote again!

@dorpth no one's going to have a debate with you short bus snowflake

@Aaron B So we should take away your right to vote for all the stupid comments you post?I would trust a drug dealer with the right to vote way before I'd trust someone who shows up to a neo nazi rally. Yet the latter would be the one gets to vote according to your dumb system.

This panel sounds super illegal to me.

@JuicetÜne VVeeB MYOB🇺🇸

@Catherine Elmore VOTE FLORIDA, VOTE ! VOTE BLUE WHATEVER YOU DO 🇺🇸